A man who punched a woman at an old people’s home was trying to teach her a lesson, a court heard yesterday.
Karl Jackson appeared before Judge Duncan Harvey in the Invercargill District Court yesterday to be sentenced for assaulting a 65-year-old woman on January 5, as well as five charges of offering to supply cannabis, three of offering to supply methamphetamine and one charge of possession of a cannabis plant.
The drugs charges are representative.
The woman suffered minor injuries.
Judge Harvey said under normal cases he would not accept the explanation it was "older, wiser, more evil" people behind Jackson’s offending but in this case he did.
The decision should not be used as a precedent, the judge said.
He sentenced Jackson to six months’ community detention and ordered him to pay emotional harm reparation of $500.
